Poudycat's Rubber Ratings
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Here are Poudycat's ratings and reviews. These ratings are useful because Poudycat has his/her own standard and will rate and review the ping pong equipment accordingly, giving you accurate and useful ratings and reviews to aid you in your next online purchase.
Sanwei (1)
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Sanwei Target National (New)
Speed  |
9.0 |
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Spin |
8.0 |
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Control |
9.0 |
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Weight |
6.0 |
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Gears |
10.0 |
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Tackiness |
8.0 |
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Throw Angle |
4.0 |
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Sponge Hardness |
7.0 |
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Overall |
10.0 |
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Review of Sanwei Target National (New)My review compares this new Sanwei Target National to unboosted Hurricane 3 neo (H3) and Skyline 2 neo (TG2) and Xiom Vega China (XVC). I wanted to find a rubber to replace unboosted H3 and TG2 because of their lack of speed. The XVC has a very high throw angle compared to H3, TG2, and the new Sanwei Target National. The new Sanwei Target National has a slightly higher throw than H3 and TG2, but this is partly because the ball bounces off faster and farther; when looping the throw angle seems to lower a bit. Overall it's still comparable and your technique will not need to adjust too much. This STN achieved what I wanted: more speed. It's much easier to play flat (e.g
blocking) thanks to the speed and the slightly higher throw angle. The rubber still has good spin, it is tacky. I don't think there is a better rubber than TG2 for counterlooping, unfortunately the higher throw and increased speed of STN will make it a bit harder to control counterloops, need to close the racket angle more and account for incoming spin. I used the new STN on both forehand and backhand. I used them on H301 blade, and it was a smooth upgrade in speed compared to unboosted TG2 and H3 on Fang Bo Carbon and HL5. Overall it's a 10/10 rubber for me so far, I strongly recommend it to people who are used to unboosted Chinese rubbers and want to get more speed without sacrificing tackiness, and without boosting.
Update: the durability is low, the tackiness has significantly decreased after 2 months even if stored properly (plastic covers) and only playing twice a week. I still use it.
Sep 30, 2024 |
Xiom (1)
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Xiom Vega China VM
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Speed |
9.0 |
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Spin |
8.0 |
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Control |
6.0 |
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Tackiness |
5.0 |
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Throw Angle |
8.0 |
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Overall |
8.0 |
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Review of Xiom Vega China VMMy review compares this Xiom Vega China (XVC) to unboosted Hurricane 3 neo (H3) and Skyline 2 neo (TG2). The XVC has a very high throw angle compared to H3, TG2, and the new Sanwei Target National. This made it unusable for me, because I am used to the low throw angle of Chinese rubbers. One thing I did find nice is that XVC is very fast. I tried it on forehand and backhand, and with backhand I could get a fast block by barely moving my hand. This rubber was hard to control though, because using more movement or a longer stroke often made the ball go out (to be fair, I'm not used to this high throw angle, and after 3 hours I could do decent topspin loops and I found that my reflex-blocks, which usually don't succeed, had a pretty good success rate with this rubber, presumably because a very small movement is sufficient to get the ball forward with topspin). The catapult tensor effect is very strong. I found this much less spinny than H3 and TG2, it was very hard to do slow topspin loops and also to loop against backspin.
I recommend this rubber if you use tensors like Donic Bluefire M2 and want to migrate towards harder rubbers without getting a low throw angle. I do not recommend this for people like myself, who used unboosted H3 and TG2 and wanted to get something similar but faster. I tried both XVC and the new Sanwei Target National and found the new Sanwei Target National to accomplish this purpose better.
Nov 04, 2023 |
